Digitalis Americana – 6. How Blogs Affect Our Ability to Write for Others

Communication is the heart of all relationships.

Weblogs—blogs—are a product of the need to make it easier to publish on the web. For the less technically adept user, blogs are a venue to online publishing that requires almost no special training. I have read many articles that describe blogs as a source for writers, web publishers. When I discuss blogs with adult university students, especially business management majors, a common reaction is that the blogging software is a facilitation tool that the could use to build web content without leaning heavily on the support of information systems staff or contract computer advisors or webmasters.


These students’ observations that blogging is a tool, not solely the result, presents a perspective that is significantly different from that which most technology pundits present.

WHO BLOGS?
Most bloggers are young, technically-savvy computer users; although, I anticipate that blogs will follow the expectations put forth by my business management students: viz., blogs will become business tools for disseminating information, both internally and externally.
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Why will blogs become a business publishing tool?

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